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List of photobooks by photographer Wolf, Michael
Michael Wolf was a photographer who was a "citizen of the world" : born in 1954 in Germany, he spent earlier parts of his adult life in the United States, and then was mainly based between Hong-Kong and France. He died suddenly in April 2019.
Photo: © Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf was a photographer who was a "citizen of the world" : born in 1954 in Germany, he spent earlier parts of his adult life in the United States, and then was mainly based between Hong-Kong and France. He died suddenly in April 2019.
Photo: © Michael Wolf
Photographying the architecture and culture of the Mega Cities
Michael Wolf started his career in 1994 as a photojournalist, spending eight years working in Hong Kong for the German magazine Stern. With the decline of this industry, he decided in 2003 to devote himself to fine-art photography projects. He is a photographer of the city, of its immensity, of the sometimes horrifying urbanisation, and of the ways humans adapt, cooperate or resist.
A large retrospectice exhibition of all his main series took place at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in the summer 2017.
His main publisher is Peperoni, with whom he published Architecture of Density, Tokyo Compressions, Bottrop-Ebel 76 and an ongoing series of smaller books about the particularisms of the streets of Hong-Kong and of the people who live and work in these streets...
Bibliography: Already published photo books / monographs
2015 Hong Kong Umbrella, Peperoni books
2014 Hong Kong Flora, Peperoni books
Hong Kong Informal Seating Arrangements, Peperoni books
2013 Hong Kong Trilogy, Peperoni books
Small Gods Big City, Hong Kong University Press
2012 Bottrop ebel 1976, Peperoni press
Tokyo Compression Three, Peperoni press / Asia one
Architecture of Density, Peperoni press / Asia one
2011 Hong Kong Corner Houses, Hong Kong University Press
Portraits, Superlabo, japan
Tokyo Compression Revisited, Peperoni press / Asia one
Real Fake Art, Peperoni press / Asia one
2010 Fy, Peperoni press
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Peperoni press / Asia one
Tokyo Compression, Peperoni press / Asia one
2009 Hong Kong Inside Outside, Asia one / Peperoni press
2008 The transparent City, Aperture
2002 Sitting in China, Steidl
.Sold out. One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
120,00 €Out of stockThe last of the photobooks in the classic series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. This last volume was published by Buchkunst Berlin after the passing of Hannes Wanderer. Michael Wolf lived in...
36,00 €In StockOne of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
75,00 €In StockHong Kong Coat Hangers (*signed / not...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
75,00 €Book available with different optionsHong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes (*signed...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
80,00 €In StockHong Kong Assemblage Deconstructed...
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
95,00 €Book available with different optionsSome More Hong Kong Seating Arrangements
One of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
95,00 €Book available with different optionsSmall God, Big City (*signed*)
Presentation by Peperoni Books: " For Michael Wolf Hong Kong is a lifelong love affair. With its outstanding architecture, vital dynamics and rich vernacular culture Hong Kong was the inspiration and starting point for his ever growing body of work about life in megacities and some of the most important series have been created here. But Michael Wolf is...
195,00 €In StockExcerpt from the text included in the book: "From his home on the Hong Kong island of Cheung Chau, Michael Wolf photographed sunrises every morning between 5.30 and 7.30 am. Here, on the roof of this three-story house, the photographer meditates regularly during these early hours. This series grew into a conceptual work. At first glance, the spectacle...
38,00 €In Stock.Back in stock (2nd printing). Presentation by Peperoni: "The fourth and final edition of the photobook classic. Once again better, more dense, more beautiful, more oppressive than all predecessors With Tokyo Compression Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and...
65,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Michael Wolf is a photographer. For more than 40 years. He looks back on an amazing career. As a photojournalist, as a freelance photographer and for nearly 20 years now as an artist. More than 25 books have been published only in the past 10 years, including worldwide successes as Architecture of Density, Tokyo...
60,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by Peperoni: "This book has been published before as part of the two-book set Hong Kong Inside Outside, which is completely sold out. Now Architecture of Density comes in a new edition as a stand alone book. Focused on the specific visual elements Michael Wolf has depicted high density living in one of the world’s most crowded...
36,00 €Out of stockOne of the classic photobooks in the series of small volumes of thematic photographs by Michael Wolf from the streets of Hong Kong. This series was a close collaboration between Michael Wolf and publisher Hannes Wanderer from Peperoni Books. Michael Wolf lived in Hong Kong and walked the streets of the city for over 20 years, turning his eyes and lens to...
245,00 €Out of stockBottrop-Ebel 76 is a re-reading of one of Michael Wolf's student project. In this body of work, the artist documented life in a small mining town in the Ruhr District, a region he new quite well for having lived some time there. This "early" series (he was 22 at the time) shades a different light on Michael Wolf's work, as we are mostly familiar with his...
45,00 €Out of stock
